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Crossrail to remove eight shafts from tunnel design
Monday, 06 April 2009
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Crossrail has reached an agreement with the London Mayor and the London Fire Brigade to remove eight of the proposed permanent access and ventilation shafts from the central tunnelled section of the new railway.
The removal of the shafts means the elimination of construction works impacts, including lorry journeys, in these areas. In addition, a number of properties in Hanbury Street in east London will no longer need to be compulsorily purchased and demolished.
The eight shafts no longer required are located at: Westbourne Bridge W2, Hyde Park W2, Park Lane W1, Hanbury Street E1, Lowell Street E14, Hertsmere Road E14, Blackwall Way E14 and Warren Lane SE18.
These permanent access and ventilation shafts would typically be around 9 metres in diameter, with a structure on top the size of a one- or two-storey building.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, said:
“The construction of Crossrail is a truly herculean endeavour and while work takes place it is so important that we continually consider how to keep any disruption to the absolute minimum. This will be the largest infrastructure project in Europe and when complete Londoners will be able to zip between the east and west of the city in record times.
“We know it will be fantastic and I know Londoners will show great patience while construction takes place. But the decision to remove these shafts from the building plans will be most welcome for communities that would have been affected.”
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Monday, April 6, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business CROSSRAIL campaign commentary and update for 2 PM Monday 6 April 2009 in hanbury Street London E1
0810 Hrs GMT London Monday 6 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! inviting all campaign supporters against “Big Business Crossrail scam” interested to know what Janet Fookes really looks like in her role as a PEER on the ‘Crossrail Bill’ stooged committee in the UK’s ridiculously undemocratic House of Lords, to come to the event at the very spot where Janet was in February [Year????] .……..
Come there at 2 PM today Monday 6 April 2009 and walk along with local people and with other campaigners in dignity and symbolically defy the stooges in the House of Peers.… as well as in the House of commonly undemocratic Commons... and their sub-stooges in place in the smaller spots and positions in the inn inner city, ‘most deprived borough’ of Tower Hamlets that has been controlled by a clique that has served supplicatory statements for the benefit of Big Business and begged them to IMPOSE the Crossrail agenda assault on the community in the East End of London.….. They have let democracy down. They have played the script and to the tine of Big Business intent on looting the public.… Well the community campaign mobilised by KHOODEELAAR! for the past five years and three months [Staring in January 2004] put paid to their plot to violate the space in the immediate area in Brick Lane... It has taken us that long... And even with her own otherwise 'positive' [in electoral sense, in staying put as the 'constituency MP' for Plymouth,m Drake] record of of successfully staying on in her Plymouth Drake constituency despite reaped speculation that she would be dislodged.….. Janet Fookes, when she reached the House of Peers proved to be in effect as ineffective as the others... She in effect gave in to the likes of the sneaky, ethics-free, morality-free careerist zone Peter Snape... The same, the very same Snape that has been exposed as being involved in a cash for Bill role in the House of Peers... Yes.. we have had to monitor the behaviour of the undignified ones that were used as stooges by Big Business to ‘secure’ [note that word ‘secure’ in all its grammatical permutations and practical applications including ‘secured Crossrail’ - which we shall be elaborating on in due course...] the crassly conceived CROSSRAIL scam.... [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! inviting all campaign supporters against “Big Business Crossrail scam” interested to know what Janet Fookes really looks like in her role as a PEER on the ‘Crossrail Bill’ stooged committee in the UK’s ridiculously undemocratic House of Lords, to come to the event at the very spot where Janet was in February [Year????] .……..
Come there at 2 PM today Monday 6 April 2009 and walk along with local people and with other campaigners in dignity and symbolically defy the stooges in the House of Peers.… as well as in the House of commonly undemocratic Commons... and their sub-stooges in place in the smaller spots and positions in the inn inner city, ‘most deprived borough’ of Tower Hamlets that has been controlled by a clique that has served supplicatory statements for the benefit of Big Business and begged them to IMPOSE the Crossrail agenda assault on the community in the East End of London.….. They have let democracy down. They have played the script and to the tine of Big Business intent on looting the public.… Well the community campaign mobilised by KHOODEELAAR! for the past five years and three months [Staring in January 2004] put paid to their plot to violate the space in the immediate area in Brick Lane... It has taken us that long... And even with her own otherwise 'positive' [in electoral sense, in staying put as the 'constituency MP' for Plymouth,m Drake] record of of successfully staying on in her Plymouth Drake constituency despite reaped speculation that she would be dislodged.….. Janet Fookes, when she reached the House of Peers proved to be in effect as ineffective as the others... She in effect gave in to the likes of the sneaky, ethics-free, morality-free careerist zone Peter Snape... The same, the very same Snape that has been exposed as being involved in a cash for Bill role in the House of Peers... Yes.. we have had to monitor the behaviour of the undignified ones that were used as stooges by Big Business to ‘secure’ [note that word ‘secure’ in all its grammatical permutations and practical applications including ‘secured Crossrail’ - which we shall be elaborating on in due course...] the crassly conceived CROSSRAIL scam.... [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business CROSSRAIL scam agenda CAMPAIGN event: 2 PM Monday 6 April 2009 Hanbury Street London E1
0745 Hrs GMT London Monday 6 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business CROSSRAIL scam agenda CAMPAIGN event: 2 PM Monday 6 April 2009 Hanbury Street London E1
KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business CROSSRAIL scam agenda CAMPAIGN event: 2 PM Monday 6 April 2009 Hanbury Street London E1
KHOODEELAAR! NO to 'Crossrail scam' CAMPAIGN gathering at 2 PM [1300 Hrs GMT] at the corner of Hanbury Street and-Spital Street Today Monday 6 April
0505 Hrs GMT London Monday 6 April 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Khoodeelaar! the campaign AGAINST Big Business “Crossrail hole scam” and in defence of the community and the environment and the fragile ‘local economy’ of inner city East End of London, mostly located in what is also known as the ‘London Borough of Tower Hamlets’, has said in the five years and three months to last Friday that the London ‘Crossrail’ scam was crass. That it had been crassly conceived. That it was NOT about addressing the real transport urgencies and needs in London. That it had been devised as a ploy to enable Big Business to loot the public under covers of a ‘project’. That those pushing the project,. pushing for the project and pushing its promotion and propaganda were behind the scenes agents of Big Business TYPIFIED by Bechtel Corp of the USA... ALL of these statements by KHOODEELAAR! have now been acknowledged and admitted by peddlers. They have also admitted all our OTHER assertions, comments, explanations and diagnoses...They have only just also admitted that we were correct to tell them that they did not NEED to dig ANY Crossrail holes in the Brick Lane London E1 area at all.....! KHOODEELAAR! is publishing more details on this and the next phase of the campaign against Crossrail hole scam, at 1300 Hrs GMT that is 2PM local [London] time today Monday 6 April 2009 at the corner of Hanbury Street and Spital Street London E1....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Khoodeelaar! the campaign AGAINST Big Business “Crossrail hole scam” and in defence of the community and the environment and the fragile ‘local economy’ of inner city East End of London, mostly located in what is also known as the ‘London Borough of Tower Hamlets’, has said in the five years and three months to last Friday that the London ‘Crossrail’ scam was crass. That it had been crassly conceived. That it was NOT about addressing the real transport urgencies and needs in London. That it had been devised as a ploy to enable Big Business to loot the public under covers of a ‘project’. That those pushing the project,. pushing for the project and pushing its promotion and propaganda were behind the scenes agents of Big Business TYPIFIED by Bechtel Corp of the USA... ALL of these statements by KHOODEELAAR! have now been acknowledged and admitted by peddlers. They have also admitted all our OTHER assertions, comments, explanations and diagnoses...They have only just also admitted that we were correct to tell them that they did not NEED to dig ANY Crossrail holes in the Brick Lane London E1 area at all.....! KHOODEELAAR! is publishing more details on this and the next phase of the campaign against Crossrail hole scam, at 1300 Hrs GMT that is 2PM local [London] time today Monday 6 April 2009 at the corner of Hanbury Street and Spital Street London E1....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the grubby, immoral and pro-criminality conduct by Crossrail Bill-peddler Alistair Darling
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the grubby, immoral and pro-criminality conduct by Crossrail Bill-peddler Alistair Darling
TEXTS below from the MAIL ON SUNDAY web site London 0030 GMT London Monday 6 April 2009:
Second home expenses row: Now Chancellor Alistair Darling is in the frame
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:45 PM on 05th April 2009
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Under scrutiny: Chancellor Alistair Darling
Alistair Darling has claimed thousands of pounds in expenses on his family home despite owning a London flat which he rents out - and living in a grace-and-favour apartment in Downing Street.
The Chancellor - the man in charge of the nation's finances - has repeatedly changed the designation of his 'main home' over recent years, the Daily Mail has learned.
The switches enabled him to charge the taxpayer thousands of pounds towards both his £1.2million Edinburgh townhouse and a new London apartment.
In addition, he has been pocketing cash from rent.
Mr Darling is the latest Cabinet minister to be dragged into the outcry over MPs' expenses.
All of those involved insist they have done nothing wrong and say their claims were approved by the Commons authorities.
But there is a growing clamour for an immediate overhaul of the system of pay and perks in Westminster.
Campaigners claimed ministers who enjoyed grace-and-favour accommodation were building 'property empires' at the expense of the taxpayer.
Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon came under fire yesterday for using taxpayers' money to run his constituency home while living rent-free in a Whitehall apartment and hiring out his London flat.
Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg both insisted ministers who enjoy grace-and-favour homes should be banned from claiming expenses for a second property.
As public disquiet over expenses grew:
Further leaked details of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's claims suggested she charged taxpayers for a £104.56 patio heater and a £369.99 flat-screen TV;
It was disclosed that MPs are claiming stamp-duty charges of more than £10,000 on expenses;
A married back-bench MP couple were revealed to be costing the taxpayer more than £570,000 a year in salaries and expenses;
An MP admitted using his expenses to help buy a £520,000 retirement home near the Suffolk coast;
Gordon Brown prompted anger by suggesting he has more important issues than MPs' expenses on his mind.
The Chancellor's financial arrangements have come under scrutiny after he claimed £9,837 in second-home allowances last year despite living in Downing Street.
As well as enjoying rent-free accommodation in Number 11, Mr Darling started declaring income from tenants in a London flat he owns soon after he became Chancellor in 2007.
Spacious: The Darling family home in Edinburgh
In previous years, he had listed a room in a shared London flat as his main residence and made second-home claims on the large Edinburgh house he shares with his wife, Margaret.
Between 2003 and 2005, Mr Darling registered the London room as his main residence instead of the family home.
Using the same system exploited by Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, this allowed him to claim more on the larger second house - up to £24,006 a year under the additional costs allowance - to cover mortgage interest, council tax, decoration and utility bills.
In 2003 Mr Darling took lowcost lodgings with Labour MP Lewis Moonie, now Lord Moonie and one of the Labour peers at the centre of the 'cash for amendments' scandal.
Mr Darling had a single room in a South London flat.
Commons rules required all ministers to designate their London homes as their main residence until 2004, after which they were instructed to list their 'main home'.
Between 2001 and early 2004, when he had no choice but to declare Edinburgh as his 'second home', he claimed a total of £45,954 towards the house.
However, the Chancellor continued to list the room in Lord Moonie's flat, and subsequently a room in another flat, as his main residence after the rule change gave him the choice.
He finally designated Edinburgh as his main home in September 2005, at which point sources say he bought a 'small flat' in London.
Cramped: Mr Darling had a room in this South London block
This was then designated as his second home - allowing him to claim £20,675 in ACA in 2006/7.
After becoming Chancellor in the summer of 2007, and moving into Downing Street, Mr Darling is understood to have switched back again to claim on Edinburgh as his second home.
The Chancellor then rented out the London flat and began declaring income from it on the register of MPs' interests.
He is understood to pay council tax on his Downing Street flat, and is taxed on it as a benefit in kind.
Since taking high office, he has also enjoyed the use of Dorneywood, the Buckinghamshire house traditionally given to Chancellors of the Exchequer.
He also co-owns a family retreat - a croft in the outer Hebrides. While aides insist Mr Darling is 'fastidious' about his expenses claims, they declined to comment further until MPs' receipts are published in full this summer.
But the Chancellor yesterday admitted the spate of accusations against ministers was 'damaging'.
'I think we do need to get an outside examination of this and so there are recommendations coming from people who've got no axe to grind,' he told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme.
The Prime Minister, attending an EU/US summit in Prague, insisted he was focusing on issues such as the economy and terrorism.
'All these other issues are being dealt with by the Committee on Standards in Public Life,' he added.
Mr Brown has asked the committee to speed up an inquiry into the system of MPs' allowances.
Sources say they expect it to recommend that the second home allowance is scrapped before the next General Election and replaced with either a daily Commons attendance allowance or a pay rise.
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TEXTS below from the MAIL ON SUNDAY web site London 0030 GMT London Monday 6 April 2009:
Second home expenses row: Now Chancellor Alistair Darling is in the frame
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:45 PM on 05th April 2009
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Add to My Stories
Under scrutiny: Chancellor Alistair Darling
Alistair Darling has claimed thousands of pounds in expenses on his family home despite owning a London flat which he rents out - and living in a grace-and-favour apartment in Downing Street.
The Chancellor - the man in charge of the nation's finances - has repeatedly changed the designation of his 'main home' over recent years, the Daily Mail has learned.
The switches enabled him to charge the taxpayer thousands of pounds towards both his £1.2million Edinburgh townhouse and a new London apartment.
In addition, he has been pocketing cash from rent.
Mr Darling is the latest Cabinet minister to be dragged into the outcry over MPs' expenses.
All of those involved insist they have done nothing wrong and say their claims were approved by the Commons authorities.
But there is a growing clamour for an immediate overhaul of the system of pay and perks in Westminster.
Campaigners claimed ministers who enjoyed grace-and-favour accommodation were building 'property empires' at the expense of the taxpayer.
Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon came under fire yesterday for using taxpayers' money to run his constituency home while living rent-free in a Whitehall apartment and hiring out his London flat.
Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg both insisted ministers who enjoy grace-and-favour homes should be banned from claiming expenses for a second property.
As public disquiet over expenses grew:
Further leaked details of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's claims suggested she charged taxpayers for a £104.56 patio heater and a £369.99 flat-screen TV;
It was disclosed that MPs are claiming stamp-duty charges of more than £10,000 on expenses;
A married back-bench MP couple were revealed to be costing the taxpayer more than £570,000 a year in salaries and expenses;
An MP admitted using his expenses to help buy a £520,000 retirement home near the Suffolk coast;
Gordon Brown prompted anger by suggesting he has more important issues than MPs' expenses on his mind.
The Chancellor's financial arrangements have come under scrutiny after he claimed £9,837 in second-home allowances last year despite living in Downing Street.
As well as enjoying rent-free accommodation in Number 11, Mr Darling started declaring income from tenants in a London flat he owns soon after he became Chancellor in 2007.
Spacious: The Darling family home in Edinburgh
In previous years, he had listed a room in a shared London flat as his main residence and made second-home claims on the large Edinburgh house he shares with his wife, Margaret.
Between 2003 and 2005, Mr Darling registered the London room as his main residence instead of the family home.
Using the same system exploited by Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, this allowed him to claim more on the larger second house - up to £24,006 a year under the additional costs allowance - to cover mortgage interest, council tax, decoration and utility bills.
In 2003 Mr Darling took lowcost lodgings with Labour MP Lewis Moonie, now Lord Moonie and one of the Labour peers at the centre of the 'cash for amendments' scandal.
Mr Darling had a single room in a South London flat.
Commons rules required all ministers to designate their London homes as their main residence until 2004, after which they were instructed to list their 'main home'.
Between 2001 and early 2004, when he had no choice but to declare Edinburgh as his 'second home', he claimed a total of £45,954 towards the house.
However, the Chancellor continued to list the room in Lord Moonie's flat, and subsequently a room in another flat, as his main residence after the rule change gave him the choice.
He finally designated Edinburgh as his main home in September 2005, at which point sources say he bought a 'small flat' in London.
Cramped: Mr Darling had a room in this South London block
This was then designated as his second home - allowing him to claim £20,675 in ACA in 2006/7.
After becoming Chancellor in the summer of 2007, and moving into Downing Street, Mr Darling is understood to have switched back again to claim on Edinburgh as his second home.
The Chancellor then rented out the London flat and began declaring income from it on the register of MPs' interests.
He is understood to pay council tax on his Downing Street flat, and is taxed on it as a benefit in kind.
Since taking high office, he has also enjoyed the use of Dorneywood, the Buckinghamshire house traditionally given to Chancellors of the Exchequer.
He also co-owns a family retreat - a croft in the outer Hebrides. While aides insist Mr Darling is 'fastidious' about his expenses claims, they declined to comment further until MPs' receipts are published in full this summer.
But the Chancellor yesterday admitted the spate of accusations against ministers was 'damaging'.
'I think we do need to get an outside examination of this and so there are recommendations coming from people who've got no axe to grind,' he told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme.
The Prime Minister, attending an EU/US summit in Prague, insisted he was focusing on issues such as the economy and terrorism.
'All these other issues are being dealt with by the Committee on Standards in Public Life,' he added.
Mr Brown has asked the committee to speed up an inquiry into the system of MPs' allowances.
Sources say they expect it to recommend that the second home allowance is scrapped before the next General Election and replaced with either a daily Commons attendance allowance or a pay rise.
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